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Addressing EV Usage Disparities for Environmental Impact
Professor Helveston Publishes Op-Ed on EV Use in the US
December 13, 2023
In an op-ed published in Scientific American, Professor John Helveston discussed how used car buyers and the U.S. government need to dive into the marketplace to deliver the emissions reductions promised by electric vehicles.
Creating Dedicated Pathways into the Naval Research and Development Enterprise
December 8, 2023
Philippe Bardet, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, will be leading the Consortium on Naval Enterprise Pathways (CoNEP) to create dedicated pathways into the Navy’s Research and Development Enterprise (NR&DE).
GW Engineering Team Scores First Department of Energy Award for Green Lithium Extraction
December 7, 2023
Ellexco, a research team led by CEE assistant professor Xitong Liu, was one of three winners of the U.S. Department of Energy’s first-ever American-Made Geothermal Lithium Extraction Prize!
Public and Private Leaders Gather at GW for Athens Roundtable on AI and Rule of Law
December 5, 2023
GW Today shared an overview of the Athens Roundtable on Artificial Intelligence and the Rule of Law, a two-day summit hosted at the George Washington University on November 30 and December 1, 2023.
Introducing Students from Across GW to Careers in Cybersecurity
November 29, 2023
On November 3, the Cyber Security and Privacy Research Institute and Computer Science Department organized a Cybersecurity Pathways Information Session for students interested in careers in cybersecurity.
Professor Szajnfarber Named Next Chief Scientist of the Systems Engineering Research Center
November 28, 2023
As part of its 15th annual research review on November 15, 2023, the Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC) announced that Szajnfarber will serve as its third Chief Scientist.
Circulating New Research Findings in Fluid Dynamics
November 22, 2023
The 2023 APS DFD Meeting occurred on November 19 through 21, 2023, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. It was brought to D.C. by GW’s fluid dynamics group and co-chaired by Dr. Michael Plesiank.
Systems Engineering Team Reveals How Automated Vehicles Are Transforming Labor in Taxi Services
November 17, 2023
Lead study author, and EMSE Ph.D. candidate, Leah Kaplan, and co-authors, EMSE Professors John Helveston, and Zoe Szajnfarber highlighted their preliminary research findings in the November issue of the ISE Magazine.
Cultivating Human-AI Synergy with Novel AI/ML Capabilities
November 17, 2023
Over the next four years, ECE Professor Tian Lan will be leading a $1.5 million project to tackle the challenging problem of decentralized preference elicitation and learning.
Ensuring Safe Drinking Water Through Research on Opportunistic Pathogens and Disinfection Byproducts
November 16, 2023
CEE Assistant Professor Yun Shen is working to develop a deeper understanding of Opportunistic Pathogens (OPs) and Disinfection Byproducts (DBPs) in drinking water distribution systems in a $2M project supported by the EPA.
Biomedical Engineering Students Share Novel Research Findings
November 16, 2023
Two Ph.D. candidates advised by BME Professor Chung Hyuk Park, Mariia Sidulova and Baijun Xie, recently shared the novel research they conducted in prominent journals and conferences in the biomedical engineering field.